George K. Ilsley (born 1958) is a Canadian writer. [1] He has published a collection of short stories, Random Acts of Hatred, which focuses on the lives of gay and bisexual men from childhood to early adulthood, [2] and a novel, ManBug. [3] His new memoir is The Home Stretch: A Father, a Son, and All the Things They Never Talk About (2020, Arsenal Pulp Press).
Originally from the Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia, [4] he has since been based in Vancouver, British Columbia. [5] Prior to launching his career as a writer, he studied law, but decided not to become a lawyer. [6] His writing has also appeared in the anthologies Queeries, Contra/Diction and First Person Queer, and in the literary magazines The Church-Wellesley Review, Event, Prairie Fire and Plenitude. [5]
ManBug was a shortlisted finalist for the ReLit Award for Fiction in 2007. Ilsley was awarded an Honour of Distinction citation by the Writers' Trust of Canada's Dayne Ogilvie Grant in 2010, [7] and his 2014 piece "Bingo and Black Ice" won subTerrain magazine's Lush Triumphant Award for creative non-fiction in 2014. [5]
References
- ^ "But there are second acts in CanLit". The Globe and Mail, August 26, 2006.
- ^ Basilières, Michel (16 October 2003). "Random Acts of Hatred (book review)". Quill & Quire. Retrieved 2008-02-14.
- ^ "Insects and love's complexities" Archived 2011-05-26 at the Wayback Machine, Xtra! West, March 30, 2006.
- ^ "About an author writing much closer to the bone". Whitehorse Star, December 21, 2007.
- ^ a b c "George Ilsley, Vancouver". Plenitude, October 21, 2015.
- ^ "Author suffered from withdrawal symptom". Whitehorse Star, January 23, 2008.
- ^ "Nancy Jo Cullen wins Dayne Ogilvie Grant" Archived 2013-01-29 at archive.today. National Post, May 19, 2010.
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